Thread:Comments:Petition urges Apple to remove 'anti-gay' app/Seems silly/reply (13)

"There are no "ex-gays" only people in denial, people shamed by doing things not usually their behaviour and out their faces on narcotics, or utter hypocrites. And, quit inventing idiotic words that show you as an inept apologist for some fag bashing "church"."

I quite agree with you on your first point. I'm not sure what you mean by inventing words. Are talking about "explanandum" or "pro-gay"? I assure you, explanandum is a word I didn't invent, you may wish to look it up. If you're talking about 'pro-gay', do you have some other term for "pro-gay" Christian you would like to use? There is a reason I left it in scare quotes, because to me it sounds as silly as calling a Christian who doesn't follow kosher laws 'pro-shrimp' or 'pro-cheeseburger,' but I'm not sure what other term I could use.

Have I said anything that would give you any reason to believe that I am myself a Christian of any kind? As it happens, I'm an atheist and a Discordian. However, it might be easier to convince members of the ex-gay movement to stop bashing homosexuals than to convince them that God is dead.

"Rationalize ancient proscriptions against homosexuality as the generally ignorant observing that anal sex carries a far higher risk of spreading STIs." Given that some of the clobber verses are right next to and have the same form as the kosher law verses, I doubt that there is even that much of a rationale for said ancient proscriptions. Why didn't God warn use not to eat shrimp because of mercury poisoning? What scientific rationale is there for not eating cheeseburgers?